Mark 10:1-6

Teaching About Divorce

1 ¹And he left there and went ²to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.

2 And Pharisees came up and in order ³to test him asked, ⁴"Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

3 He answered them, "What did Moses command you?"

4 They said, ⁵"Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away."

5 And Jesus said to them, "Because of your ⁶hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

6 But ⁷from the beginning of creation, 'God made them ⁸male and female.'